She realized that she and other foster care kids had that longing in common. Gilmore combined the two to create a platform designed to uplift and empower foster kids while working to end the many disparities they face. For “We Built This,” Gilmore spoke to HuffPost about healing after her personal traumas from foster care, the flaws within the system and the importance of making foster kids feel like royalty. And you have people who are aging out of foster care who are living a lifetime of poverty and it’s so much trauma that it’s being passed on generation and generation and their kids’ kids are coming into the foster care system. Kris Graves for HuffPost In Cleveland, 76 percent of the kids in foster care are African-American, Gilmore says.

Source: Huffington Post February 27, 2019 18:00 UTC